Katie Hill Quotes

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Public service is a noble career. You can’t do it unless you get out there and run…. You can make a difference if you are elected.

When politicians try to govern by raising a wet finger to the wind or on the basis of public opinion polling, the public gets to think that all leaders are interchangeable.

My father [Pandit Nehru] was a statesman. I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Believing as I do in political parties, I had rather that the party ... should, in its conferences, make a declaration than to assume a leadership or take an individual position on the question.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

I do believe that being in public office is all about making choices. And if I'm president, I would steer this nation in a direction where we embrace progressive values.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.